On Friday, 16 December 2005 at 14:12, John W. Linville wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:59:52PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > > Oh, BTW: any chance of including something like: > > CONFIG_STANDALONE=n > > CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=n > > I'm not sure what these would buy for us? Looks like we would just > be cutting-out support for some drivers...? AFAIR without them the following are inactive. > > CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT=y > > CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_FILE="/lib/firmware/DSDT.hex" > > in Fedora kernel config? > > These probably send shudders up the spines of anyone involved w/ > supporting Fedora kernels. I would not expect to see them enabled > in any "official" Fedora kernels anytime soon. ACK. Note to myself: tell everyone NOT to buy Acer laptops if you want Linux on it. > > This Acer has a really broken ACPI DSDT and I wish I didn't have to rebuild > > every new kernel. > > You may wish to look here: > > http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/dsdt/ > http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc4/ Thanks. > Please note that the FC4.jwltest kernels do _not_ have the collection > of upstream networking fixes that are in the FC4.netdev series. > Also, don't blame me if you laptop explodes...ha-ha, only serious. :) Anyway, until "DSDT in initrd" patch becomes part of FC kernels, I might as well stick to what I do, because changing a few config params is far less invasive and time consuming than applying a patch to released kernels. Regards, R. -- APT/YUM RPM repository for Fedora Core http://rpm.greysector.net/ mpg321, xmp, faad2, lame, mad, *mplayer*, rdesktop, tin, xvid, mks, mutt "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
